Apatosaurus and Camarasaurus at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Photo by the author.

Thanks to the Diplodocus post being featured on Freshly Pressed, the number of people following this blog has increased fourfold in 24 hours. Welcome, everyone, and thanks for your interest! I’ve been using this blog to explore the world of mounted fossil skeletons in museums. These exhibits fascinate me because they are effectively installation art in the service of science, and what’s more, many have taken on a second life as cultural artifacts over the course of their decades on display.

Here is a sampling of key posts that have been reasonably popular…or which I am not yet completely embarrassed by: